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Reuters is reporting the unsurprising news that London, New York City, and San Francisco are seeing dramatic drops in smartphone thefts after the implementation of kill switches on devices became mandatory. The ability to encrypt the contents of these...

As 2014 winds down, I was really under the belief that data breaches caused by the loss or theft of unencrypted laptops were really down – I hadn't come across too many stories involving them over the past year, relatively speaking. I had attributed...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will settle with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office to the tune of $100,000 for causing a data breach when a laptop computer was stolen from it campus. This amount is on top of the $500,000 that the hospital...

The BYOD culture is saving companies about $1,300 per mobile user. Employees who bring their own devices also tend to be happier and more productive. How could a BYOD policy possibly have any downside? Unfortunately, BYOD also brings new security concerns...

Let's say you are the owner of one of the i-products: iPhone, iPad, or iPod (touch). There are Apple MDM products designed to secure these devices. Likewise, Macintoshes can be secured using Apple's File Vault 2, a disk encryption software that...

The BBC is reporting that Minnesota has introduced a kill switch bill for smart phones (and has beat California to the punch). A "kill switch" is a way to incapacitate a phone, usually permanently. It's a smart phone data security feature...